Where does “Voigt” come from?
Voigt comes from German Vogt, from Late Latin vocatus, from Latin advocatus meaning "one called to aid," from advoco meaning "to call to," composed of ad- meaning "to" and the root related to vocare meaning "to call."
Ancestry of “Voigt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Voigt | — |
| 2 | German | Vogt | steward |
| 3 | Middle High German | voget | — |
| 4 | Old High German | fogat | bailiff |
| 5 | Latin | vocātus | called, invoked, having been summoned |
| 6 | Classical Latin | advocatus | One called to aid; advocate, attendant; witness,... |
| 7 | Latin | advoco | I call, invite or summon someone to a place,... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |